I have a website!





And two etsy shops!









And soon - once I work out the details - I will start taking commissions!

If you're looking for my art, just look here!

MY ART MASTERLIST
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( Doctor Who ArtCollapse )
( Merlin ArtCollapse )
( Glee ArtCollapse )
( Original ArtCollapse )

If you're looking for my fics, just look here!

MY FICTION MASTERLIST
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Because I have signed up to far too many things and post-its just don't cut it, I think it's time I put up a list of fandom projects I am working on / have signed up for.

1. submission for hd_fan_fair // due date: 31st of august **art**
2. submission for hd_fanart // due date: 14th of october **art**
3. submission for hd_holidays // due date: 21st of october **art**
4. gift for hd_seasons secret santa exchange // due date: 20th of december
5. submission for hd_remix // due date: 10th of february **art**
6. submission for bottom_draco fest // due date: 15th of february **art**
7.submission for do_me_veela fest // due date: 27th of february **art**
8. my long forgotten WIP The Path of the Serpent **fic**
9. the Neville/Draco fic I've been thinking about writing since the summer before last.**fic**

ETA: Updated on the 18th of February 2013.

I spent half the day at Clerkenwell talking about Architecture to Humanity and our Four Huts. Too lazy to tell you more about it now. I spent all my evening catching up on the Eurovision Contest - I didn't actually watch it on Saturday.

For all you non-europeans, the eurovision song contest is the most kitch and over-top pan-european event of the year. To be enjoyed properly you have to gather a group of friends and alcohol to have a eurovision viewing party. Which is why I haven't watched it properly in a while.

A quick fly-by post because I have stuff to share but no time at the moment to sit down and write it up.

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First off, sunday we had a meet-up for nursedarry's birthday. As per usual there was far too much alcohol involved - I have no idea how many margaritas I had, but I think I can still feel them! Also there was much giggling and inappropriate subjects of conversation for public locations. And there were many hugs and sad good-byes, because Darry's moving up north were it's cheaper and more picturesque, but also further away from us in the south.

In other news I met my first bona fide celebrity on sunday. Ronan Keating of ex-boyband fame came to our store with his girlfriend and bought some huge canvases. They brought them to me - because I was behind the till at the time - and asked me if I could keep them and they'd pick them up later. I said sure, but could they please give me a name. Because honestly I hadn't recognised him! I knew they probably were someone or other, because they just exuded self-confidence in the way few people do. So he says Ronan Keating and spells it out for me, as I write it down I almost joke to him that he shares the same name with a famous singer, but something holds me back. Thank god! Because as soon as they left my coworker told me who he was! Imagine if I had made that joke? It was at the tip of my tongue!


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I have been taking part in a volunteer project for the charity Architecture for Humanity where we have been building some "huts" to put up in Clerkenwell Design Week. I shall tell you all about it when I have the time, but for now I'm letting you know that Clerkenwell Design Week starts tomorrow until Thursday, and I will be at the Remakery Hut from one-ish until four-ish tomorrow if anyone wants to come by.



The hut I will be up should be located in St John's Lane. I haven't actually seen it on site yet, I spent all day today helping put up the amazing Green Hut.

I'm not feeling happy. I am disorientated and disorganised and I'm feeling like I'm getting everything wrong.

Remember when I mentioned - ages ago now - that I wanted to make some linoprints of Kurt and Blaine from Glee? And I had a poll so you could help me choose a colour for Blaine?

(So far only five people have voted, which is fair enough. Possibly only five people on my flist are into Glee. Caramel/light brown is winning so far 3 to 2 against red. If you haven't voted and want to you still can.)

Anyway. I have made the initial pencil sketches of the portraits and I'm still looking at them undecided. I wanted to go really minimalist and graphic but I do wonder if I went over the top.

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Hm. What do you think? Are they emblematic enough for Glee fans to immediately understand who they are? Or will I have to add the names on the top, like I did on the sketches using my little letter stamps?

And then I get to thinking. Everyone seems to like shiny polished digital art, why do I even bother with this old school stuff. Most Glee fans are kiddies, they won't be into this decidedly adult design.

*sigh* I should have just done the Doctors instead, like I had been considering...

What an awful day! What an awful weekend! Do we call this mid-may weather? I have spent the last two days feeling cold and unhappy when leaving the house. Today in particular I spent the whole time at work cold and miserable.

As can only be expected I'm now sick. My throat and ears hurt when I swallow and my back and joints ache. I just want to curl up into a ball of woe and hide under my covers feeling sorry for myself.

In other news, I made a new TARDIS scarf! ashindk linked me to an awesome site that sells plain silk scarfs. I went a bit over-board and ordered quite a few, in quite a few different sizes. I have started off with the small ones. They are so much easier! I am a big (very very big sometimes) scarf kind of girl, but I figure there must be people who prefer small ones, right? Small ones are better for wrapping round your hair.

The cool thing about the silk scarves I got is that they are super sheer, so although I stamp on one side you can see the pattern on both. Plus they should be perfect for the summer! Not that we get any real summer in the UK. But some lucky places actually get warm weather...



Etsy listing

Also, even though I don't really read Doctor Who fanfiction, I like looking at the fanart, and I would like to take part in discussions and read meta. Do any of you have any good communities to propose on LJ? Or is lj dead and there are better places to go nowadays? Just don't say tumblr. I want to avoid the kiddies. Plus I don't like the interface.

Remember my plan to eventually make a calendar with Harry/Draco kisses? I'm calling it my 12 kisses project. I have made a little headway into it, before being sucked into other things.

So here's my next kiss in the series:

Title: Flowers & Kisses
Author/Artist: mayfly_78
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Art Medium: India Ink, Photoshop
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: This is part of my 12 Kisses series and can be found in my etsy shop as a greeting card



Just a little reminder of the kisses planned for this series: (As always, if you have a better proposal for one of the months tell me!)

1. January - Fireworks & Kisses
2. February - Hearts & Kisses
3. March - Shamrocks & Kisses
4. April - Balloons & Kisses
5. May - Flowers & Kisses
6. June - Butterflies & Kisses
7. July - Sun & Kisses
8. August - Sea & Kisses
9. September - Leaves & Kisses
10. October - Rain & Kisses
11. November - Scarves & Kisses
12. December - Xmas & Kisses

First of, thank you everyone for your hugs and kind thoughts! It means a lot to me, because I often feel so alone and isolated in London.

Besides the fact I am currently without a mobile phone, so have to put my job search off until I sort that out, my favourite shoes - that I just had fixed - have been destroyed, possibly beyond repair.

Friday morning I ordered these two things, which arrived in the post this morning:

An alarm, because the police proposed I get one. I know the penguin looks stupid, but having something you just need to squeeze in case of emergency, rather than the standard design of having a cord to pull, seemed so much more user-friendly.



Seeing as pepper-spray is illegal in the UK, I opted for this spray. It contains a dye that takes days to come off and makes it easy for the police to find them.



Lets hope that Murphy's Law works, and now that I am prepared, I won't need to use them.


In other news, I'm still feeling alternately blue or in a bad mood.

On Saturday my sister and her boyfriend were holding a graduation party for him at their house. It was a relatively small affair, but that didn't stop most of us getting plastered. I drank far too much whiskey, even though I know that whiskey doesn't agree with me, and I smoked what turned out to be some really dodgy weed. Ugh. I got horribly wasted and spent the whole of sunday in a nauseous dizzy daze. And don't forget I work on Sundays! In a shop! So I have to smile and interact with people and make some sort of sense while doing it!

I still wasn't feeling completely well on Monday when we went for a day trip to Brighton with some of my sister's bf's classmates. The weather on Monday was brilliant! First we made a beeline for the beach were we lazed for ages. I actually got a bit of colour! Especially on my nose!

While the others spent the whole day on the beach drinking beer - northern europeans are such weirdos! - my sister, her bf and I decided we wanted to explore the town. We found the crazy pavilion and adorable little winding lanes. We ate some delicious italian gelato and fell asleep in a park while listening to a frankly pathetic piano-bar style live concert. And finally we made the obligatory visit to the pier. It was loads of fun!

I still have so much stuff to share, but this post turned out too long as it is.